Nobody would describe my mother as a good cook. But she made a Passover brisket from a recipe much like this one -- I think hers was from the Settlement Cookbook, which I inherited. And it always came out good. It's the dried fruit that made it good.

(This recipe cooks it on a smoker for obvious reasons, but you easily can do it in a slow cooker or, as mom did, in a low oven.)

https://barbecuebible.com/recipe/aunt-annettes-holiday-brisket/

"It’s easy to scoff at the totemic kitsch of the New Age movement. But it’s impossible to deny its importance, both as an economic force and as a cultural template, a way of approaching the world." (2015) https://aeon.co/essays/will-new-age-ideas-help-us-in-the-high-tech-future

“There is other software out there,” says Carrie Shepard, a Torah tutor in Davis, California. “They’re not the same. They don’t have this level of detail.” https://www.inverse.com/input/features/tropetrainer-thomas-buchler-torah-software

Interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.
https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle

#coffee Little kids don't play with tea sets anymore, I suppose. We need to train them all to be baristas!
(This is fun.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OFt2T8aH9I

My Amazon review of _One Extra Corpse_ by Barbara Hambly.
Looking for a diverting historical mystery set in 1920s Hollywood? This is the escapism you're hoping for.

https://amzn.to/3MhcuBY

The Y2K38 bug is closer than the Y2K bug.

Your parents told you to finish your dinner, didn't they? Probably this was not one of the reasons they told you it was important. https://futurism.com/neoscope/wisconsin-firebombing-suspect-burrito-dna

If you ever feel sad about how your project doesn't look that great from the start, here's a fun little site showing what “Version 1” of some of your favorite services looked like.
https://www.theversionone.com

You might think that surround sound is a relatively new development. But the concept of having a soundtrack surrounding the listener starts well before today's home theater era—in fact, it dates all the way back to the 1940s! https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx

Overheard in presentation-advice: "I usually warm them up with an interpretive dance, followed by a slam poem about what I’ve learned. Once they’re warm, a bitchin’ slide deck with a lot of transitions and sound effects usually gets the job done."

The hardest tissue in the human body is tough enough to resist dents, yet elastic enough not to crack during decades of jaw smashing. It’s so incredible that scientists haven’t created a substitute that can match it—until now. https://www.science.org/content/article/new-artificial-enamel-harder-and-more-durable-real-thing

For this year’s No List, we’re highlighting destinations to reconsider visiting in 2023 in three main categories: natural attractions that could use a break in order to heal and rejuvenate; cultural hotspots that are plagued with overcrowding and resource depletion; and locations around the world immediately and dramatically impacted by water crises.
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/fodors-no-list-2023

"When translating Gómara’s triumphant narrative of Spanish discoveries and conquest, Ha-Kohen recoiled. It was a narrative that could not remain unanswered, especially to Sephardi Jews who, after being expelled, had had to grapple with the reality that Spain did not suffer a setback due to the departure of its Jewish population but became a powerful global empire." https://psyche.co/ideas/hidden-in-translation-jewish-resistance-to-spanish-empire

"Garlick fell to his knees upon winning the auction and appeared to cry, but why was he crying? Because of the rush of adrenaline that can only come from doing something a 14-year-old version of you would find really cool? Because he fucked up and bid his way into a Coen brothers-esque scenario?" https://hellgatenyc.com/some-guy-bought-the-flatiron-building-and-didnt-pay-for-it

On the lookout for a challenge, Yo Kheng Meng wondered if he could write a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS. Specifically, he targeted a 1984 vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ms-dos-chatgpt-client-arrives-for-1984-ibm-pc

Everyone needs an editor.

NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will announce during an event at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 3, from NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFbNDSttnPQ